Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3949, Charles Gatliff, Va

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va
Gatliff, Charles Rachel
R 3949
CONTENTS

83037
Kentucky
Charles Gatliff of Whitley Co. in the State of Kentucky who was a private in the comd commanded by Captain Henderson of the reg commanded by Col Logan in the Ky. line for 16 months & 3 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 53 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of Nov 1833 and A. Craig Whitley Co. Ky.
Arrears to the 14th of Sept 134.17 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 March 26.83 $161.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. and Bay Clerk. Book 6 Vol. 1 Page 11
Let to A. Craig Apr 13. 1841.

State of Kentucky Whitley County ss
On the 21 st day of October 1833 personally appeared before the Whitley County Court Charles Galtiff a resident of Whitley County in the State of Kentucky aged Eighty five years the 28 th day of May last who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
That on the 2 nd day of June 1778 he commenced as an Indian Spy under an appointment of John Ben- -derson Commander of Cooks point Bathelot County Virginia that he was in actual service under said appointment five Months and Thirteen days 1 st one Four of ten days with James Fitzpatrick 2 nd one Four of ten days with Joseph Elliot Williams M g um 3 rd one Four of four Months and 23 days with Matthew Crid the  for ending the 15 th of November of the same year. In June 1780 He was appointed an Indian Spy by Col o Benjamin Logan on Clarke's expedition in which Capacity he served three Months He was appointed a Spy by Said Col o Logan to repair to Limestone to ascertain as well the movement of the Indians as British in which he served twenty days The two last from Kentucky Making in all Nine Months and 23 he was in actual service as an Indian Spy Previous to the last two Fours and in the year 1779 he served two Campaigns as a Volunteer front under

Command of Capt Riddle in which Camp they erected Riddles Station he was in actual Service One Month In the Spring of 1780 He Volunteered under Capt Haggan and served in the expedition Commanded by Col o Bosom against the Shavones on the Little Miami One Month Making in all two Months that He served as a private
In the Summer or fall of 1780 he was elected Capt of Martins Station by its inhabitants and Com- menced in Actual Service three Months and until the Station was taken by the British & Indians In the fall of the same Year and immediately after Martins fort was taken as above he received Orders from Col o Bosom to take Command of Bryan's Station which was likely to break up He served under said Appointment two Months Making in all five Months of Actual Service as Capt
There is no living evidence that he knew of by which he can prove the foregoing declaration and the only document in his possession is herewith filed dated August 22 nd 1780 Signed Col o Bosom
I hereby relinquish every Claim whatever to a portion or an annuity except the present and declare that My Name is Not on the pension roll of any agency of any State. Given to and Subscribed this day & Year aforesaid Charles G Attilh

The following questions were propounded by the Court
Question 1 st Where and in what Year were you born
Ans r In the County of Philadelphia & State of Pennsylvania and in the 1748 agreeable to the Record of My age
Question 2 nd Where were you living when Called into Service
Ans r at Cooks fort on Green River (formerly Boletort) County Virginia
Question 3 rd Where have you lived Since the Revolutionary War, and Where do you Now live
Ans r Principally in Garrard County Kentucky except the last thirty odd years which is in Whitley County Kentucky on Cumberland River where I Now live
Question 4 th How Were You Called into Service
Ans r I was living in Cooks fort and was Called into Service by an appointment as an Indian Spy by Col d John Henderson
Question 5 th State the Name of Some of the Regular Officers with the Troops
Ans r There was None at Cooks fort but in Kentucky and in the year 1779 Col d John Bowman, in 1780 Gen l Clark and in 1781 Col d Benjamin Logan
Question 6 th State the Circumstances of Your Service
Ans r I was a Spy in 1774 for Fowlers fort Culbersons bottom on New River the length of Service Not recollected In 1775 Was peace 1776-7 We had War with both British and Indians but I was Not Called On in either Year In 1778 in the Month of June I commenced as an Indian Spy the 1 st Days with different Mates I served upwards of five Months

I assisted in erecting Paddles fort in Kentucky in 1779. I volunteered in Capt Haggens Company and was on Bannans campaign had a battle at Chillicothe With the Shawnees we got but One Scalp but lost 10 or 12 Men After Our Return I engaged to hunt for game to supply Paddles fort to prevent it breaking up Dackester There hunter being killed and his mate refusing to serve longer In hunting I frequently took with me Tho Emry who was killed near the fort I continued until I concluded to build another fort Called Saura Martins fort I hunted for Martins fort some time Isaac Read My hunting Mate being killed I took such others as I could get to serve When I was about the fort was taken by the British and Indians and its inhab- -itants Many persons amongst whom was My Wife and four Children I then learned Col Logan at Bryants Springs and was appointed a Spy and pilot for the Army which Marched to Mad River at Piqua had a battle and lost 18 or 20 Men On Our Return I received Orders from Col Beman to take possession and Command of Bryants fort (or Station) which I kept until some time in November I then took a Furl as a Spy to Limstown to ascertain the movement of the enemy a Furl of 20 days and after returning I resigned all business of the kind and in the Spring 1781 I went in Company With Daniel Boon & Benjamin Logan Members elected to the Virginia Legislature to Virginia I returned (I think) in July of the same year

In the fall following I started through the Wilderness to join the Southern Army but hearing that Corn Wallis was taken at York I changed my course and went to Virginia Greenbrier County In 1783 I met my family below Staunton (who had been taken prisoners from Martins Station in Ky and with them returned to Kentucky in the month of May Clark's expedition parting I remained at ease until in 1786 I served in all the campaigns ever raised in Kentucky except Clark's in 1782 at the Blue Licks I was a spy & pilot in 1786 under Logan in 1790 I was a spy and pilot in Harmer's Campaign I headed the Pioneers about an & a half month and after my arrival at home I quit the service I was in four General engagements previous to this time I served as a spy with others by twos until all were discharged but myself the longest Four Eight Months looking to day but this term since 1783 the Upper Ohio Skirmishes I was in previous to cannot recollect but I know I served as I have stated first in my declaration
total as an Indian Spy — Nine Months & 13 days as a point ————— two Months as capt ————— Five Months
I never did nor did I ever apply for I never did nor did I ever apply for the nature of my service was different from most others as I always stood ready when called on

On once a discharge (If I thought of it) was a small consideration with me at that time Nor do I recollect any time that it would have been proper for me to apply except once or twice when leaving Kentucky, but intending to return I never thought it necessary In fact I never thought any thing about it, Consequ- ently I never applied
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid Charles Gatliff.
We William Siler - a Clergyman residing in Whitley County and William Cunningham residing in the same do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Charles Gatliff who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Declaration and interrogatories put by the Court that we believe him to be upwards of Eighty years of age That he is respected and believed in the neighbourhood County & State in which he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that Opinion
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
William Siler M.G. William Cunningham

And the Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after passing the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the foregoing applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states And do further certify that William Siler who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman resident in Whitley County Ky And William Cummins who also has signed the same is a resident in Whitley County Ky and are Creditable persons and that their statement are entitled to Credit
new Cummins Presiding Justice of the Peace
Presiding
Judge of the peace for Whitley County Kentucky
State of Kentucky Whitley County set
I Andrew Young Clerk of the County Court of Whitley County do certify that the foregoing Seven pages attached by me contains the Original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Charles Gottlieb for a pension
In testimony whereof I have unto affix My Seal of Office and subscribe My name this 29 th day of October 1833
And Young Clerk of Whitley County Court Ky

State of Kentucky County of Whitley
On this 22 nd day of March A.D. 1853 personally ap- peared before me William J. Meadows Esq. a Justice of the Peace the 8 th & 10 th above the Rachel Gatliff a resident of the County of Whitley and State aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the ben- efit of the Act of Congress passed February 4, 1853 that she is the widow of Charles Gatliff deceased who was a pensioner when he received his pension first she thinks it was after eighteen hundred she does not know the amount he drew she thinks he drew his pension in Lexington Kentucky the act under which he drew she does not know.
She further declares that she was married to the said Charles Gatliff at his house in Knox County Ky. now Whitley County on the
That her name before her marriage was Rachel Cummings and that her husband the aforesaid Charles Gatliff died at his house on the 30 th June 1838 and that she has remained a widow since that period or that she is now and was on the 4 th February 1853 a widow I also affirm
W. C. my attorney
} Rachel Gatliff widow
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 22 nd day of March A.D. 1853
William J. Meadows J. B. W. C.
State of Kentucky
County of Whitley I John P. Tye clerk for the county of Whitley State aforesaid do certify that William J. Meadows Esq. before whom the foregoing Declaration were made and acknowledged was at the

time of so doing a justice of the peace in and for Said County and that the signature purporting to be his I believe to be genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 22 nd day of March 1853
John D. Lyle Clerk Multnomah County Or

Charles Battif No. 3 Copy Mr. Lieure Rachel Cummings
Refer to fee p 150 Paid by Mrs. E. Newgiman

Charles Galtiff was married to Rachael Cummings June 19 th 1809.
By James Sullivan .
State of Kentucky Knox County ss
I John M. Dickinson clerk of the County Court of the County aforesaid do certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the records in my office herein under my hand and seal of office done at Danborough this 11 th day of March 1853.
John M. Dickinson clerk Knox County Court

27.640. Charles G. Galtiff Kermit
from 1778 / cents 116 cents & 3 days $53.66 100
26.83 311 134.15
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: { ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, showing the Service of Leah L. Gatliff
   Period when the service was rendered. Duration of the claimant's service. Rank of the claimant. Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service. Proof by which the declaration is supported.   Years. Months. Days.     1778 5 13 P. Col Henderson Traditions & accounts.   1779 1 - R.   1780 3 - P. Col Logan   " 1 - P.   20 P.   Fall 1780 5 - C. enlistment & pay   11 22  
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS, Commissioner of Pensions.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops. 2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers. 3. Persons employed in the Naval Service. 4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of } ss. County of } On this                      day of                      personally appeared (a) before A. B. a resident (b) of                      in the county of                      and State, Territory or District of                      aged (c)                      years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)                      , with                      and served in the                      (e) regiment of the                      line, under the following named officers:
 [Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.] 
He hereby relinquishes every claim (if) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of _____ Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I _____ of the Court of do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of _____ for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of _____ &c.
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
 Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz: 
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the _____ and C. D. residing in (the same) _____ hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with _____, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be _____ years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the [blank] and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the [blank] and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, _____ Clerk of the Court of _____ do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of _____ for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this                      day of                      &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (1) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his

alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following ( m ) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
 1. Where and in what year were you born?  2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?  3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?  4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?  5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services. 
 6. { To a Soldier. } Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it? { To an Officer. } Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it? 
 7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. 
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons—one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditional evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make their declaration before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:—For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months , is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
□ The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditional evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.

Washington D.C. July 13 th 1853.
Hon. Loren P. Waldo. Commissioner of Pensions, Sir
I have received a letter from your Office of yesterday's date in reply to my enquiries respecting a Claim for Pension under the Act of 1853 of Rachel Gatliff, and stating that she was not entitled in consequence of having been divorced from her husband. Also informing me that papers have been filed by another Agent in which the fact of a divorce is suppressed, and requesting me to communicate the facts in my possession having a bearing upon the matter.
I will briefly state my knowledge of the Claim and connexion with it. - My attention to it was called by Mr W m M. Smith of Rockcastle Co. Ky (Mount Vernon P.O.) in a letter dated March 31. 1853 who informed me of the facts of the case, the divorce &c; and asking if she was entitled to a Pension. Being in doubt whether she was a widow within the Pension Laws or not, I informed him that it would be advisable to obtain official information on that point before proceeding to collect the evidence. On the 3 rd of May June I informed him that Mrs Gatliff was not entitled and that nothing could be done with the Claim. -
In a letter from Mr Smith dated April 26 th appears the following. - "I am told that Mr Newcom of our town has gone to Whitley Co. and got a Power of Atty. from Mrs Gatliff to attend to her Claim &c", and in another letter dated

May 14 th he states. — "There is a certain Jonathan Newcomb "of this County who has buried himself about this claim. "and I am told that he has taken all the proof that is "necessary."
It may be proper to add. that Mr W m M. Smith mentioned above has been recommended to me as a gentleman in good standing in his section of Country, and from my business acquaintance with him I do not think he would be concerned in any attempt at fraud. —
Very Respectfully Your ob t Servt.
Chas. C. Tucker. —

Madison, Wisconsin, Oct. 24 th 1862.
Hon. Jos. H. Banett, Com te of Pensions;
My Dear Sir:
I have been many years engaged in collecting facts for a series of border biographies - in the final preparation of which, the well-known historian, Benson J. Lossing, will aid me - to include Col. D r Boone, Gen. Geo. R. Clarke, Gen. Simon Kenton, Capt. Sam l Brady, & the Wetzel brothers.
In the Kenton work, I shall have occasion to speak of Ch s Gatliffe, an early Kentucky pioneer companion of Kenton; & should be glad to obtain a copy of his pension papers - which I wish solely for biographical purposes.

I am not certain that Capt. Gat- liffe was a pensioner, but I know very well he served in Kentucky in 1780 - & survived till the year 1838, & could have been a pensioner had he desired it. I presume he made the application - & the application & certificates will, I doubt not, furnish facts suitable for me to use in my work.
I have several times - chiefly through members of Congress known to me - obtained copies of pension papers from y r Office; & hope you will try oblige me in this instance.
Capt. Gatliffe lived & died in Whitley Co., Kentucky.
Very truly yours,
Syman C. Draper

Charles Gatliff, Kentucky roll, act of June 7. 1832 , at $53:00 per annum.
Be pleased to say to what time his pension was last paid.
Pension Office } Oct 13. 1841. }
Dec. 11/1837
JH
16 th Oct '37

Whitney Chatty May 16
William
J. Waldo Esqr Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.
Genl Pacheco B. M. Peru.
May 24/63

Williamsburg Ky. 16 th May 1853
Dear Sir
I this day learn from the clerk of the Whitley County Court that the Smiths threw a Mr. Meritt has procured a power of attorney from Rachel Gatliff of this County to attend to all her appointments some person in making City her also to attend to all her business then, if said power of attos author- izes any person to attend to her claim for a pension in right of her deceased husband Charles Gatliff it is a forgery, no one but myself is attending to this case but myself and I want no agent or assistant, upon examination of the papers you will see that no one is concerned but myself
I will send on shortly a power of attos from the old lady revoking all powers of attos heretofore given in this case if any have been so given, please let no person med- dle with the case
Yours &c
J. Newman

Pension Office, July 5, 1853.
Sir,
Please certify the time to which Charles Gatliff, a revolutionary pensioner, was last paid; or (if the information be on file in your office) the exact date of his death. He was pensioned as private, under the act of 7 th June 1832 at $53.66 2/3 per annum - pension payable at the Louisville (Kentucky) Agency.
Very respectfully Your Ob't Servt
L. Waldo Commissioner Of Pensions
Dec'd 30 th June 1838, and Paid to his death.
F. Brant Auditor.
A. Burt. Esqr Third Auditor, Treasury Department.

Washington D.C. May 9. 1853.
Hon. Loren P. Waldo. Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir.
I send herewith a power of att declaration, improperly prepared, from Mrs Rachel Gatliff widow of Charles Gatliff formerly a pensioner of the United States on the Kentucky roll, claiming a pension under the Act of Feb 3. 1853. — a power of Attorney from Mrs Gatliff authorising me to attend to her claim has been filed in your Office. —
Being in doubt whether Mrs Gatliff is entitled to a pension or not I would respectfully ask for information on the following point. —
The pensioner Charles Gatliff previous to his death obtained a divorce from his wife the present claimant. By the Laws of Kentucky a woman divorced from her husband can marry again, but Mrs Gatliff did not file the necessary bill in order to remarry, and thereafter the pensioner of Mrs Gatliff remained after their divorce.
Before proceeding with the claim I would respectfully ask if Mrs Gatliff is a widow within the meaning of the pension laws and entitled to a pension as the widow of a Revolutionary Soldier. Very respectfully
Your obt Servt.
Chas. C. Tucker.

Nov. 21, 1853.
Requesting to know where the place was located, & where the inhabitants in base of the Gat. the widow of the place. J. Newcum, Mt. Vernon, Ky.
Postscript: The place was located in the base of the Gat. the widow of the place.

McVean B July 29
L. P. Waldo Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D. C.

April 29/53
App d of Rachel Galliff widow of Charles. Whitley County. Ky.
2505
Act 3 d Feby: 1853
Rev d .
J. Nourse Mt Vernon Rockcastle Co. Ky.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Pension Office, Official Business

W Vernon St Sep 25 Paid 3
Mr. Charles C. Tucker Esq.
Paid } Washington City. mail } D. C.

Hon. Loren P. Waldo, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.

Official Business.
Free.
Hon. Jos. H. Barnett, Comr. of Pensions, Washington, D. C.

Rachel - Battiff Rachel - Battiff
Ames
Charles
M c Vernon St 10 & 20
J. P. Waldo Esqr Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D. C.

July 14, 1853.
Letter rel. to Case of Rachel Galliff.
Chas. C. McKim, Present.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, PENSION OFFICE, OFFICIAL BUSINESS
Commissioner

No. 13782
Rachel Galliff widow of Charles Kyb
3949
Set to Chas. C. Tucker July 12 th 1853
Same Sept. 14. 1853
J Newcum Sept. 14/53
To J. Newcum Mar 3/53
Al. To same Nov 23/53
Set February 3 rd 1853
(Claim Rejected)

May 12. 1852
App. of Rachel Gatliff widow of Charles.
Reg: 25057
Feb 30 Feb: 1853
Revy:
J.B. Tucker Present.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Pension Office, Official Business

St. Vincent 94.
28 th Sept. 1853
L. P. Waldo Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.
Dear Sir I received the pension certificates of Sarah Lanham and Rebecca Witt, and also your letter with regard to Rachel Galtiff's claim. In company once with what I wrote you in May last, about a certain Mr Smith trying to swindle me out of the claim, I procured a power of attorney from the old Lady Mrs. Rachel Galtiff on the 23 d day of August last, revoking all former powers of atty. given in that case if any had been given to any one else but myself. I got the clerk of the County Court of White County to go to the old lady and takes the acknowledgement, and he put the proper seal to it, and for truth forwarded it to the Commr. of pensions.
If that power of atty has not come to hand. please withhold the certificate if allowed, till I can have time

to procure another, there is no one else attending to the case but myself, the old lady declares that she never gave any power of atty. to any one in this case except to me, it is about 75 miles to where she lives, if the power of atty. I sent you about the 23 rd of last month does not come to hand shortly please inform me. I am going in the neighborhood of Mrs. Galtiff on the 8 th of Oct r if I do not hear from the department by that time I will procure another power of atty and send to you. please do not let those scoundrels swindle me out of my case
Your obedient servant J. V. Cunn

Rockholds Ky March 20 th 1871 Sir
W 3 War Department J L Edwards Com te of Pensions Washington City

Whitney C.H. Ky
March 29 th 1841
Dr Sir
William Early an Ensign in Capt Geo. Craig's Company Ky. Mounted Volunteers under Gov Shelby & Genl Harrison was at Portage on Lake Erie honorably discharged from the Service after the battle of the Thames. he then contracted a disease of which he died he through great difficulty reached home took his bed and died in a few days afterwards. I have learned that by an act of Congress passed (probably) in 1814 that the Widows of those who died in the Service are entitled to five years half pay, and their heirs to 100 acres of land each Whether the act would embrace this case in its letter, I am at a loss to know. In its spirit they come completely under the law
In behalf of the Widow & heirs I have employed Col o Elias Smith of Mount Vernon Ky. who was to write to you upon the subject requesting information and the requisite blanks with directions. Will you be good enough to attend to it
In 1833 I acted as an agent in procuring for Charles Galtiff a pension I received and gave him his Certificate. He died in August 1837 and his Certificate cannot be found amongst his papers, several years pay if not the whole up to his death is due
If consistent with your duty please send to me or to the Ex o Robert Farley an other Certificate or give the necessary instructions
I am Yours respectfully
J. L. Edwards Esq.
And o Craig

St. Neumon Ky.
Sept r 22 nd /53
W. Charles C. Zucker Washington City D.C.
Sir. I received yours of the 15 th inst. stating for which you have my grateful thanks. I was fully satisfied that some one was writing to the Department about me but never for one supposed it to be this unprincipled scoundal Jonathan Hewcum. I am able to establish beyond contradiction that he knew all about Mrs. Galliff being divorced - for him and myself had a conversation upon the subject, and he said to me in the presence of others that he knew she was divorced but that he cared nothing for that that he could get her a Pension any how, that she was entitled to it and while I was corresponding with you about the case and waiting to get a decision from you on the subject whether she was considered the widow of Charles Galliff he procured a power of attorney from her fraudulently he told her that he wanted to get her power of attorney to examine into a claim that she said she had on a tract of land but I afterwards got another power of attorney from her which you will recollect of receiving which was very much bloched it was sent to me by a friend in rotally 6 th St. where she lives she then denied of even giving this scoundal - Hewcum

any thing in relation to her pension claim and directed my pend to sorite to me which he did inclosed with the power of attorney. And when you wrote me that there was no such a case known to the Pension laws and that she was not considered legally Galliff widow, I then abandoned the case knowing that she could not succeed by any honorable means and I had determined at one time to present her case to Congress, but after getting a full history of her character I determined to have nothing to do with her case. I had at one time a copy of the divorce from the records of the Pulaskia Circuit Court which I intended to forward to you when I concluded to quit the case I carelessly mislaid or lost it the record but I will immediately obtain an other copy of it and forward it to you to file.
I have neither time nor space at this time to give you a history of Mr. Newcum but time will develop the whole matter, it has been thrown in his teeth in a publick crowd that that he was a perjured villain and dare not sue for his character he let the thing pass off.
He is now holding the office of circuit court clerk through fraud and corruption and you need not be astonished when the matter is properly looked into if he has not on file in the pension office papers and proof from parties that never heard of them.
I will keep this matter a profound

secret until we can get the matter fully prepared to catch the scoundrel although it is as much as I can do to let him pass as he professes to be entirely pendley with me notwithstanding he has been writing about me in this manner I hope you will spare no pains in getting proper hold on him any information that I can give you on the subject I do with pleasure his character here is such that it would not take a great deal to convict him
Yours truly in haste Mr. M. Smith
11 3
N.B. I enclosed $10.00 to you by mail on the 20. ins t your fee in the barnet case which you have my greatest thanks yours &c
W. M. S.
3

London, March 10th 1891
Dear Sir, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 10th inst. and in reply to inform you that the same has been forwarded to the proper authorities for their consideration. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, J. R. [unintelligible]
Yours faithfully, R. [unintelligible]
Enclosure
R. [unintelligible]
[unintelligible]
Feb 30/91

Kentucky Pulaski Circuit Court
October Term 1827.
Charles Kattiff
Complainant
against
In Chancery.
Rachel Kattiff
Defendant
This day this Cause came on and was heard upon the Bill of the Complainant and Answer thereto. The Answer of the Defendant in the nature of a cross Bill and the Answer of Complainant thereto and the Depositions filed and was submitted to the Court for their opinion and Decree and the Court having inspected and duly considered the same. It is by the Court Decreed and Ordered. that the Marriage Contract made and entered into by and between the Complainant and Defendant as set forth and charged in the Bill be and the same is hereby at once annulled, vacated and held for nought. And that the Complainant be and is hereby divorced from the Defendant. It is further Decreed and Ordered that the cross Bill of the Defendant Rachel be and the same is hereby dismissed. It is further and finally decreed and ordered that the Complainant keep and retain all the estate of which he is now possessed or to which he is entitled free and exempt from the claim interest right or demand of the Defendant Rachel Kattiff. And that Defendant Rachel Kattiff do in like manner keep and retain to her own use all the property and estate now in her possession free from the claim title or demand of the Complainant. A Copy: Test-John Crawford Clerk

C I R C U L A R .
MADISON, WISCONSIN, May 1st, 1857.
Dear Sir:
I take this method of acquainting you of the progress I am making in my long promised series of works on the Lives of the Pioneers . As a very large number of persons, whose acquaintance I have made during my various rambles in the West collecting my materials, and whose aid has been most kindly and liberally extended to me, feel some degree of solicitude to see the published result of my labors and researches, I have prepared this Circular chiefly for their information.
It may gratify some of my friends—at least those who have kindly expressed a desire to know something of the inception of my historical labors—to note down a few personal reminiscences, for which, I trust, I may, under the circumstances, be pardoned. I am the eldest of four surviving children of Luke and Harriet Draper, descending from New England ancestry, my grandfather, Jonathan Draper, having participated in the battle of Lexington, and followed for several years the varied fortunes of the main army under Washington, and died in 1845 at the good old age of ninety-four. I was born on the shore of Lake Erie, Erie County, in Western New York, about eighteen miles west of Buffalo, September 4th, 1815. My father had settled at Buffalo in 1811, and suffered severely from the disasters of the war that shortly ensued, having been twice a prisoner of war, and during his captivity having his property destroyed at the burning of Buffalo by the enemy, at which time my maternal grandfather, Job Hoisington, was killed in the defence of the place; while my mother, with her surviving parent, brothers and sisters, fled for their lives.
When I was about three years of age, my father removed to Springfield Corners, Erie County, Pennsylvania, where I first commenced going to school in about 1819; and in 1821 my father migrated to Lockport, N. Y., the settlement of which had then just commenced. There I well remember seeing, at an early day, De Witt Clinton, La Fayette and Gen. Cass; and there I learned to take delight in reading the successive numbers of the first newspaper published in the place, and such historical works as chance threw in my way. My early educational advantages were good for that day, at the common and select schools, and, until 1828, I was kept steadily at school, as well as during the two or three following winters. About 1831 or '32, I got hold of two works, which were then just issued from the press, which gave quite a bias to my tastes and predilections for border narrative—Judge Campbell's Annals of Tryon County , and Memoirs of Gen. Stark , with Rogers' Journals appended. In February, 1833, I wrote my first article for publication, a sketch of Charles Carroll, the last of the immortal signers, who had just passed away; and this little production appeared in the Rochester Gem, a literary paper, on the 6th of April of that year. This was soon rapidly followed by other articles in that and other papers, chiefly upon historical and biographical subjects.
In the autumn of 1833, I went to Mobile, in Alabama, under the auspices of my kinsman Peter A. Remsen, and remained there pleasantly in his employ, not forgetting to devote all my leisure time to reading and composition, until the ensuing May, when at his instance, and under his patronage, I went to Granville College, Ohio—passing up the Mississippi from New Orleans, and arriving at Granville on the 4th of June, 1834. When in Mobile, I fairly began to gather some unpublished facts and information about the Indian wars, and at Granville I first became acquainted with McClung's Sketches of Western Adventure , Wither's Chronicles of Border Warfare , and Flint's Memoir of Boone . And while pursuing my classic studies, I found time to pore over these works on border history, and others, afterwards procured, written by Marshall, Flint and Judge Hall, and often discovered in them discrepancies alike in dates and details. This suggested to me the idea that perhaps some attention to gathering up a few facts and corrected details might enable me to prepare a small work on the leading Western pioneers. I kept this idea in view, and added to my stock of information as I could; and though leaving Ohio in the fall of 1836, and remaining in New York State till 1840, a portion of the time at a seminary on the river a few miles above Hudson, I still pursued steadily my cherished object. Spending the most of 1838 at Saratoga, I there had access to several files of old newspapers, from which I made numerous extracts relating to early border men and events, and met some aged survivors of the Revolution, from whom I took notes; and in 1839 I commenced corresponding with many persons in the West, getting my earliest references with regard to Tennessee Pioneers and their descendants from Hon. Hugh L. White, and those of Kentucky from Hon. Joseph R. Underwood and Col. Richard M. Johnson, and those of South-West Virginia from Ex-Gov. David Campbell, and Hon. William C. Preston. And though repeatedly changing my residence—removing to Mississippi in the autumn of 1840—in 1842 to Buffalo—and returning to Mississippi in 1843, I visited several pioneers in Ohio and Kentucky on the way, taking elaborate notes—in 1844 removing to the neighborhood of Baltimore—in 1848 to Philadelphia—in 1852 to Madison; yet all the while adding to my stock of pioneer information, and making ten prolonged tours to the West and South-West, besides visits to Boston, Albany, New York, Washington and Richmond, never failing to return richly laden with new acquisitions. The idea of a single little work at length gave way to a more enlarged plan, and as this plan gradually expanded, and separate and distinct works were resolved on, more full and minute information was requisite, and new historical journeyings became necessary—and thus these special toils reached half a score, as already indicated.
The task of gathering ample materials for several hundred biographies of the most prominent of the Pioneers of Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, and the western borders of Pennsylvania, Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia—embracing that most stirring and interesting period of Western history, from 1754 to Wayne's treaty in 1795—has been laborious beyond conception. I confess I had, in the outset, but a faint idea of the herculean undertaking. My heart once set upon it, I was gradually
enticed on, step by step, till at length, after many years of unceasing toil, the labor and drudgery of collecting have been nearly brought to a close.
Weeks, months, and years have been most untiringly devoted to this "labor of love"—maintaining, the while, an extensive correspondence with veteran Pioneers and their descendants—carefully examining and copying from old files of newspapers in the libraries of Historical Societies—collecting together a Pioneer Library of rare old works, as well as the modern issues, illustrative of the Anglo-American settlements and border wars of the West—and withal, plodding all over the old settled portions of the West, through Summer's heat and Winter's storm, sometimes clambering mountains, at others swimming streams: in fine, surmounting every obstacle to gain my cherished purpose. During these repeated journeyings, I have amassed a large amount of most precious material—some 10,000 foolscap pages of notes of the recollections of warrior-Pioneers, either written by themselves, or taken down from their own lips; and well nigh 5,000 pages more of original manuscript journals, memorandum books, and old letters written by nearly all the leading border heroes of the West. Properly to arrange and digest these materials, and give them due form, will require much time and labor. In order to give a proper explanation of the apparent tardiness of my progress, it is only necessary to enumerate, in part, these varied historical collections—thus showing, at a glance, what I have done, and what yet remains to be done in collating and preparing them for the press.
I have seen surviving Pioneers, and noted down from their own lips, full statements of the events in which they took part, who served on the following Western Campaigns: Dunmore's of 1774; Williamson's, Rutherford's and Christian's against the Cherokees, in 1776; Hand's, McIntosh's, and Clark's Kaskaskia campaign, of 1778; Bowman's and Brodhead's, of 1779; Clark's and Col. Arthur Campbell's, of 1780; Sevier's, Col. David Williamson's, Crawford's, Clark's, and the Blue Lick campaigns, of 1782; Clark's Wabash and Gen. Ben. Logan's campaigns, of 1786; Gen. James Robertson's Cold Water campaign, and the expeditions of Gen. Robt. Todd and Col. John Logan, of 1787; Sevier's and Martin's Cherokee campaigns, of 1788; Harmar's of 1790; Scott's, Wilkinson's and St. Clair's, of 1791; Sevier's Hightower campaign of 1793; Wayne's and the Nickajack campaigns, of 1794. To these may be added some noteworthy military events of less prominence—such as Floyd's defeat in 1781; Whitley's fights on the Southern borders of Kentucky; Snoddy's and Murray's fights in Tennessee. I have seen survivors of those who settled in West Virginia and West Pennsylvania as early as 1769, in Tennessee in 1773, and in Kentucky in 1775. I have, also, seen survivors of the sieges of Harrodsburg, and Wheeling, in 1777; of Boonsboro, and Logan's Station, in 1778; of Nashville, and McAfee's Station, in 1781; and of Bryan's Station, and Wheeling, in 1782.
Among the old manuscripts I have collected, are the following: A detailed account of the first battle ever fought West of the Blue Ridge between the Anglo-Americans and the Indians, in the Augusta Valley, in Virginia, in 1742; A journal of the Point Pleasant campaign, in 1774, kept by Col. Wm. Fleming, who himself acted a distinguished part in the memorable battle of the Point; a transcript of a Ms. journal of the same campaign, by Col. James Newell, then a subaltern officer; also original letters relative to the Indian War of 1774, by Gen. Lewis, Col. Fleming, Gov. Shelby, Gen. Wm. Campbell, Col. Arthur Campbell, Col. Wm. Preston, Gen. Daniel Smith, and Col. John Floyd, and probably one hundred others; Copies of Ms. journals of the McAfee's exploration of Kentucky, in 1773; Journal of Col. Christian's campaign of 1776; copy of the journal of Col. John Donelson, kept during a voyage down the Holston and Tennessee, and up the Cumberland, with a party of emigrants, in 1779—80; Journal of Gen. Daniel Smith while extending the Western dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina, in 1779—80; and journals of Col. Fleming, while a Virginia commissioner adjusting land claims in Kentucky, in 1779—80, and '83; Manuscript letters of Gen. Andrew Lewis, Col. Wm. Fleming, Col. Wm. Preston, Gen. Wm. Campbell, Gen. Joseph Martin; Gen. Wm. Russell, Col. Arthur Campbell, Col. John Stuart, Col. David Shepherd, Col. Ebenezer Zane, Gen. Benj. Biggs, Capt. Matthew Arbuckle, Dr. Thomas Walker, Patrick Henry, and many others, relative to West Virginia history; Gen. Daniel Brodhead, Gen. Richard Butler, Col. Wm. Crawford, Col. George Morgan, Col. John Gibson, Capt. Samuel Brady, and others, of West Pennsylvania; Gen. George Rogers Clark, Gov. Isaac Shelby, Col. Wm. Christian, Col. John Floyd, Col. Richard Henderson, Col. Daniel Boone, Col. John Todd, Col. Stephen Trigg, Col. Wm. Harrod, Col. Samuel McDowell, Col. Robert Patterson, and many others of Kentucky; Gen. James Robertson, Gen. John Sevier, Gen. Evan Shelby, Gen. Daniel Smith, Gen. James White, Gen. James Winchester, Gen. Thomas Johnson, Gen. Wm. Blount, Col. Anthony Bledsoe, Col. David Campbell, Col. Wm. Cocke, and others, of Tennessee. These numerous and valuable manuscripts throw much new light upon Western history, and correct many errors which have crept into the published works extant.
I feel that I have been peculiarly fortunate in securing the largest and most valuable collections of old papers left by the leading Western Pioneers—such as those of Gen. GEORGE ROGERS CLARK, the WASHINGTON OF THE WEST, forming a dozen volumes; those of Col. DANIEL BOONE, with 300 pages of notes taken from his last surviving son, the late Col. NATHAN BOONE, and lady; Gen. SIMON KENTON, with some 500 pages of notes taken from surviving children and aged compatriots of KENTON in border warfare; Capt. SAMUEL BRADY, with several hundred pages of notes of his thrilling adventures, taken from, or furnished by, his surviving brothers, sisters, and children, and a number of aged survivors who participated with him in his various frontier services; Col. WM. PRESTON, six volumes of Mss.; Col. WM. FLEMING, Col. ARTHUR CAMPBELL, Gen. DANIEL BRODHEAD, Gen. JAMES POTTER, Col. WM. HARROD, Col. DAVID SHEPHERD, 3 volumes, Gen. BENJ. BIGGS, Gen. RICHARD BUTLER, Col. WM. CRAWFORD, Gen. JOHN SEVIER, Gen. JOSEPH MARTIN, Gen. DANIEL SMITH, Col. ROBERT

PATTERSON, Col. WM. BRAD, Maj. Geo. M. BEDINGER, Col. WM. COCKE, Gen. BENJ. WHITEMAN, and transcripts of Gen. EDWARD HAND's, Gen. WM. IRVINE's, Gen. JOSIAH HARMAN's, Col. JOHN FLOYD's, with Ms. Journals and Narratives of the early settlement and Indian Wars of the Western States, from 1750 to 1795, by Dr. THOMAS WALKER, Col. WILLIAM PRESTON, Gen. GEORGE ROGERS CLARK, Col. RICHARD HENDERSON, Col. DANIEL TRABUE, Col. WM. WHITLEY, Col. ANTHONY CROCKETT, Col. WILLIAM CRAWFORD, JOHN ELLISON, Col. JOHN REDD, Major NATHAN REID, Col. WM. MARTIN, Ex-Gov. DAVID CAMPBELL, Col. DAVID CAMPBELL, of Tennessee, Col. NATHAN BOONE, WM. M. KENTON, Ex-Gov. WM. B. CAMPBELL, Tennessee, and many others.
In 1854, I formed a literary partnership with the well-known historian and artist, BENSON J. LOSSING, the author of the unequalled Field Book of the Revolution , published by the Harpers in 2 royal octavos, with eleven hundred spirited and truthful illustrations. I felt that I needed competent advice and assistance in the preparation of the several works contemplated, for which I had been laboriously engaged, since 1834, collecting materials—both literary and artistic aid was what I felt the want, and these were amply blended in Mr. LOSSING. Upon my invitation, he paid me a visit in the summer of 1854, examined my collections, and was fully convinced of their rare value, and strongly impressed with their great historical importance to the public. We entered into a satisfactory arrangement, by which we were to produce a series of border biographies, prepared from my original collections, and to be illustrated and published in the highest style of the art. The Life of Col. Daniel Boone was agreed on as the appropriate pioneer of the series, and this was nearly two-thirds prepared, when an unfortunate nervous injury to my right hand, and pressing labors in behalf of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin , combined to prevent its completion. From the long protracted injury I have in a great measure recovered, and can now use the pen quite freely, though not without some painful effects, and I am making arrangements by which I shall, in part, be relieved of the labors of the Historical Society. I can, therefore, with much confidence, assure those who are interested in the joint labors of Mr. LOSSING and myself, that they will be prosecuted vigorously to early completion—we are both equally anxious and determined to accomplish this most desirable result.
Among the works of a distinctive character contemplated, may be mentioned, beside the Life of Col. Boone , the Life and Campaigns of Gen. George Rogers Clark , Life and Campaigns of Gen. John Sevier , of East Tennessee, Life of Gen. James Robertson , with Sketches of the Early Settlement of Middle Tennessee or the Cumberland Country, Life and Adventures of Capt. Samuel Brady , Life of Gen. Simon Kenton , and Lives of the Pioneers of West Virginia , Lives of Gen. Joseph Martin , Col. Wm. Crawford , Col. Wm. Whitley , the Witzels , and others; History of the Campaigns of Harman , St. Clair and Wayne , Annals of the Border Wars , etc.
As this Circular may be sent to some persons, soliciting additional information, to whom I am unknown, I have deemed it but proper to subjoin some few kind expressions of confidence in the forthcoming works by Mr. LOSSING and myself, illustrative of the early settlement, Indian wars, and Pioneer biography of the West.
I am, Sir, very respectfully,
Your friend and ob't servant,
LYMAN C. DRAPER.
NOTICES.
"The subject in which you are engaged, at one time occupied a good deal of my attention, and I had made some progress in the collection of materials, but my professional pursuits interposing to prevent the prosecution of the work, I handed them over to Mr. Alex. S. Withers, who subsequently published the "Chronicles of Border Warfare." It is due to that mysterious race, whom we have conquered and nearly exterminated, to preserve something of their history. I should like, therefore, to see a work that should not only rescue from oblivion the adventures, and the perilous and romantic achievements of the "Pioneers of the West," but that it should embrace something of the history, the peculiar manners and customs of the singular races they encountered. If I can aid you, my services are at your command."—Judge E. S. DUNCAN, of Virginia, June, 1842.
"I gladly contribute what I can in furtherance of the work you have in hand. I personally knew many of the Pioneers of whom you make inquiry—they were truly noble men, an ornament generally to human nature; we shall never see their like again. May you long live to enjoy the fruit of your useful labors."—Col. R. M. JOHNSON, April, 1842.
"I approve greatly the project you have in view. You must spend months, if not years, in Kentucky, to accomplish the work with credit to yourself and justice to the subject. You should visit the Pioneers who are left, and collect from the friends of those who are dead all such documents as they may have left behind. Whatever service I may be enabled to render you, will be afforded with pleasure."—Judge J. R. UNDERWOOD, of Kentucky, Sept., 1842.
I am much pleased that such a work is undertaken, and by one, too, so competent as I suppose you to be, from what Ex-Gov. Campbell, of Virginia, has said of you in a letter to me. He is anxious that this work should be prosecuted, and is disposed to give it all the facilities in his power.—My aid you may rely upon to the utmost; and I flatter myself, from my connection with the border wars since 1780, that I can be of material service to you. It must be gratifying to every patriot to see the memory of those great and valuable men, who did so much, and suffered so much, for the West, snatched, as it were, from oblivion, and held up as a memento and example to after generations. And I am peculiarly gratified, that my venerated father, Gen. Joseph Martin, will not be, as I believe, the least luminous in this mighty galaxy of pre-eminent men."—June, 1842. "There is great solitude felt, in this region, about your book. I am often asked when it will make its appearance? My answer is, I don't know, but perhaps sometime next year. You have made it so many friends throughout the West, and particularly in Tennessee during your two visits, that it will obtain a rapid circulation, and bring you in an immense revenue—as you will be well entitled to."—Col. WM. MARTIN, of Tenn., Oct., 1845.
"It always gives me pleasure to know, that gentlemen are engaged in rescuing from oblivion such important facts as concern our infant history."—S. G. DRAKE, author of "Book of the Indians," etc., May, 1843.
"I am pleased to hear you still set your heart on rescuing from oblivion the names and the actions of the brave men who tore the rich regions of the West from the grasp of the wilderness, and the savage, who lurked under their shade, forbidding the march of civilization, on the western slopes of the Alleghanies. I hope you will soon make out a rich volume of early history, and give it to the world. Can you not contrive to rescue the papers of the brave Gen. George Rogers Clark from the oblivion which, I fear, awaits them, and preserve the name of that great man by placing it in the niche of history where it ought to be?"—Dr. S. P. HILDRETH, of Marietta, Dec., 1843, author of Pioneer History and Lives of the Pioneer Settlers of Ohio , etc.
"I am gratified that you are devoting yourself to the noble task of rescuing the history of the Pioneers, and the Indian wars generally, from the oblivion into which they have been rapidly sinking. More especially am I glad, that you have entered upon the duty with the determination to sift every thing to the bottom, and furnish posterity with a history that can be relied upon.—No one can write a history unless he goes about it deliberately, making full inquiries in every quarter where light can be shed upon any incident, comparing conflicting statements, and making deductions without favor or fear, giving full justice to the worthy, and never hesitating to hold up the character of the undeserving in its proper colors before the public. I am satisfied that you are pursuing this plan. Your books will, therefore, be just the things we do not now possess; for I have but little respect for most of the Chronicles of the West which are generally looked upon as authentic. I am particularly anxious that you should undertake the life of the gallant General George R. Clark.—It behooves you to give your work to the public as early a day as you can.—Without wishing to make you feel unpleasant , I cannot forbear remarking, that the death of Prof. Bliss has postponed the publication of a great work, and perhaps been the means of losing many valuable facts. I do not think, myself, that you will die for forty years to come; but as the Good Book says, 'Be ye also ready.'—Geo. S. MCKIERNAN, of Indiana, author of 'Old Cross-Fire,' in the Southern Literary Messenger , and of the interesting paper on the 'Siege of Fort Henry' in the American Pioneer , etc.
"In closing these references let me add, that I hope you will prosecute your work to its completion. I shall be most happy to see it."—Dr. DANIEL DRAKE, Nov., 1843, author of "Picture of Cincinnati," etc.
"I am glad you have undertaken to illustrate these obscure portions of our history. Much can be done by directing one's attention to a particular object, and I doubt not that your researches will bring many interesting particulars to light. I am much pleased with your account of your labors in collecting materials for your work; and, above all, with your caution in citing authorities and relying on original sources. Tradition can never be trusted when it conflicts in any degree with written records. Your subject extends over a fertile field of research, in many respects new; and I wish you all success.—I am amazed at the extent of your collections."—Hon. JARED SPARKS, the distinguished American historian.
"I shall be happy to offer such aid as may be in my power to a fellow-laborer in the same department of interesting inquiry in which I am engaged. From the conception I have of the work which you propose to bring out, I have no doubt of its being one of interest. As to the extent of your plan, I have no means of knowing, but it is capable plainly of being expanded to the size of a library itself. Indeed, it seems to me, too great a work for any one man to accomplish alone. But, I doubt not, you are familiar with the field, and will select such portions as may be in your power to cultivate."—The late lamented Col. WM. L. STONE, May, 1844, author of "Life of Brant," "Life and Times of Red Jacket," etc.
"I should think you now have a sufficiency of material, which you have collected with so much labor, to prepare your work for the press. You may safely risk a large edition, and it would be well to bring it out while the public expectation is up."—Ex-Gov. DAVID CAMPBELL, of Virginia, July, 1845.
"I feel a lively interest in the topics which you are embodying for publication, and shall look for the appearance of your book with anticipations of delight from its perusal, not doubting that it will be eminently worthy of the romantic and exciting events which it is designed to illustrate and preserve."—DANIEL BRYAN, of Alexandria, July, 1845, the author of the "Mountain Muse," of which Daniel Boone is the hero.
"I hope you will hasten your work as much as you can, as I have great faith in the correctness of your facts. I hope your work will take a solid form as to historical accuracy."—Gen. R. B. McAFEE, of Ky., Sept. 1845, author of "History of the War in the Western Country, 1812-15."
"It will afford me pleasure to give you any information in my power. Your letter evinces precision, clearness, and talent. You have my cordial wishes for success in your honorable labors. May they add praise to your name, and 'put money in your purse.'"—Hon. CHARLES MIXER, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., June, 1845, an able writer and antiquarian, and the author of the "History of Wyoming," a work of great interest.
"Your book, abounding in the stirring scenes and perilous adventures of the wild and hazardous life of the early settlers of our Western border, must be full of interest to the general reader; but especially will the descendants of our "Border Chieftains" rejoice to see those "deeds of daring," the relation of which has so often enlivened their fireside entertainment, preserved upon something more durable than their own memories."—Gov. JAMES McDOWELL, of Virginia, Sept. 1845.
"I am gratified that you are succeeding so well; and I will most cheerfully and fully lend you every aid in my power."—Dr. J. G. M. RAMSEY, near Knoxville, Sept. 1845, author of the "Annals of Tennessee," a work of merit and interest.
"Descending, as I do, from Pioneer ancestors, and having done something, I trust, towards elucidating the early history of the West, no one feels a livelier interest in your forthcoming "Lives of the Pioneers," than myself; and I am happy in having it in my power to render you the aid you desire."—Col. NAT. HART, of Kentucky, November, 1845.
"I am glad that you are so deeply and zealously engaged in pursuits in which I can completely sympathise with you, and for which the country will be so much your debtor. The lives of our frontier heroes—and they were heroes—have never been properly written; and, indeed, have hardly been touched by any one combining the requisites of literary attainment with patient, unflinching research. The frontier of Virginia, in particular, can furnish many excellent subjects for biography. I shall look very eagerly for the appearance of your books."—FRANCIS PARKMAN, JR., Boston, Dec. 1845—an able and industrious antiquarian, the author of the History of the Conspiracy of Pontiac , Oregon Trail , &c.
"You are engaged in a national work: May that kind Providence, who has hitherto favored our country, preserve your health and strength to complete your great undertaking, and inspire your pen with true discrimination to depict the characters and services of those great men who formed the forlorn hope in settling our Western world! I feel more interested in you, and for your eminent success, than I ever did in a stranger whom I never saw. I am very anxious that the Great Spirit should lengthen out my existence till I have an opportunity of reading your literary works, and hearing you hailed the Western Plutarch."—Col. JOHN McDONALD, of Ohio, April, 1845, himself a Pioneer, and the veteran author of an interesting volume of "Sketches of Massie, McArthur, Wells, and Kenton."
"I feel much interested in your researches, and have some statements which I have, as you desired, obtained for you. Our mutual friend, Dr. Felix Robertson, of Nashville, earnestly wishes you success, as he has again and again repeated to me in conversation. The materials which my friend, Mr. Wm. Darby, the historian and geographer, is preparing for you, will interest you greatly; he is an enthusiast in his researches into border history, and is sincerely desirous of making your acquaintance."—Col. S. H. LATHAM, Aug., 1845, Recorder of the General Land Office.
"It gives me the most serious pleasure to hear of your success in collecting material, which will, when collated, form the Epic Poetry of a history—which, had not your saving hand been stretched forth for its preservation, would have perished forever. A melancholy comes over reminiscence, when I reflect on the enormous loss that might have been prevented, had your noble enterprise been anticipated by twenty-five or even twenty years. Your merit will be, however, acknowledged, and as far as the esteem and gratitude of every heart who can feel grateful, can repay your labors, you will have your reward. Amid the trials of a life protracted beyond seventy years, hope flatters me, that with you, at some future day, the flowers of by-gone years will again spring up, when we can together recall the heroes of former days, of days indeed of trial—the Heroic Age of a new world."—WM. DARBY, Aug., 1845.
"With Mr. Draper, who is now engaged in preparing a work for publication, detailing the lives and services of our Western Pioneers, we are well acquainted, and can vouch for the fidelity and accuracy of anything emanating from his pen."—PERRY (N. Y.) DEMOCRAT, March, 1843.

"Mr. Draper has been long engaged in collecting Pioneer sketches, intending eventually to throw them into book form. If there is any way that we can add him in his enterprise through the American Pioneer, we will do it. Let the truth of history be written, and nothing but the truth under the name of history. We presume this is his praiseworthy object."—AMERICAN PIONEER, Nov. 1842.
"There is a young man engaged in collecting all the early historical facts connected with the first settlement of Kentucky; and, from what I have seen, he will be able to communicate new facts, and correct the dates of some events already published; and I hope he will, in less than twelve months, give the whole to the public."—Gen. R. B. McAFEE, in the Kentucky Yeoman , Sept., 1845.
" History of the Pioneers of the West. —We feel gratified in announcing that an able and faithful history of this kind is forthcoming, the materials for which have been in a constant course of collection for the last seven or eight years, by Mr. Draper, of Baltimore; a gentleman in every way qualified for the completion of such a work, by the enjoyment of liberal leisure, united with a most enthusiastic earnestness of purpose, and devoting to it all his time, talent and energies. In his search for authentic accounts, records and relics of the 'lions' of the early day, he rivals in his enthusiasm and singleness of mind the Wilsons and Audubons in other branches of history. He seeks for them in person where alone they are to be found."
"Mr. Draper lately passed through this city, in which he remained some days, on his way to the South and West in search of letters, papers, records, and oral statements from actors in former scenes, who still linger among the improvements and changes their own singularly adventurous spirits and daring produced. We find the following notice of this interesting work and of its indefatigable compiler, in the LEXINGTON (Ky.) GAZETTE of Nov. 22nd:
" LIVES OF THE PIONEERS. —Lyman C. Draper, Esq., of Baltimore, who is now in Kentucky collecting materials for the above work, has nearly completed his collection, and will set immediately about preparing them for the press. He has been about eight years engaged in collecting materials during which he has visited Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Pennsylvania, and West Virginia—the field of his historical labors—and gathered a large mass of oral and documentary matter. Mr. Draper, has seen survivors of every important campaign and Indian fight, from Dunmore's in 1774, to Wayne's victory at Fallen Timber, and the battle of Nickajack, in 1794. From all these he has taken full notes, and has consulted all the old files of newspapers published during the Border Wars of the West."—PITTSBURGH DAILY AMERICAN, Dec. 27, 1845.
" LIVES OF THE PIONEERS. —We had various conversations with Mr. Lyman C. Draper during his visit to this place last summer, and we entertain the fullest confidence, that the materials he has collected will be so arranged and put together as to render his work a most interesting and valuable addition to the history of our country—one that may be relied upon by future historians in all time to come."—NASHVILLE ORTHOPOLITAN, Jan. 20th, 1846, edited by WILKINS TANNELL, author of the History of Literature , etc.
"When completed, the historical works of Lyman C. Draper will probably form the most accurate and detailed history of the early settlements of the Middle and Western States that has ever been published."—SOMERSET (Pa.) HERALD, Jan. 27, 1846.
" BORDER WARS OF THE WEST. —While the people of the West have been shamefully negligent in preserving materials for its wonderful history, and while Historical Societies have been formed again and again, but to languish and die, there has been one at work, quietly and unobtrusively for the last ten years, gathering up the scattered fragments, and carefully laying them by until the time shall come for them to be brought out and built up into a full and perfect structure. This man, deeply imbued with the sacredness of his mission, for he has been a missionary indeed—has given the whole energies of his active mind, and all the affections of his heart to the task of rescuing from obscurity the thrilling events of our border wars; and he has done his work in the right way too. He has visited in person, every old "Indian fighter" in the West, and noted down from his lips the story of his early struggles. Nothing has daunted his ardor, "through summer's heat and winter's storm, sometimes clambering mountains, at others swimming streams," has he pressed onward to the fulfilment of his allotment. This man is Lyman C. Draper, now of Baltimore, but a native of Western New York. His is a name unknown as yet to fame; but one withal that will yet be placed on the list with Sparks, and Irving, and Bancroft and Prescott. Yes, if Lyman C. Draper is spared but a few years, the West will have a historian, will have raised up a son, of whom she may well be proud."—CHICAGO GEM OF THE PRAIRIE, March 14, 1846.
" CAPT. ROBERT STONE. —Our earnest and frequent enquiries for further information about this brave and faithful soldier have at length met with a most gratifying response, made in the most gentlemanly manner, by one most competent to instruct in the early history of our country, and who combines with great facilities for collecting such information, a most enthusiastic fondness for such researches. Mr. Lyman C. Draper of Baltimore, who is about to publish biographical notices of many of the leading pioneers of our country, and who has spent years in collecting materials for that purpose, has responded to our inquiries in a most liberal and courteous spirit. We are much gratified by the opportunity of placing his communication before our readers, not only on account of the valuable information which it contains, but as a very favorable indication of his fitness for the important and interesting task of biographer of the bold and hardy spirits who opened the way for the settlement of our great Valley."—OLDEN TIME, Pittsburgh, historical magazine, Aug., 1846.
"The histories of the early pioneers of the Western and South-Western States will be histories of that region. The author is Lyman C. Draper. In view of what he has already achieved in several years of patient and industrious literary researches, and what he is likely to achieve, we feel a degree of local pride, in the remembrance that he was a Lockport boy. We knew him here, as a studious and ambitious lad, gleaming from our imperfect village schools, the rudiments of an education. We now hear of him as one who has won a high literary reputation; as an author, whose proposed works are aided by the countenance and encouragement of the leading men of the Western States, as one, who, if he has not already, will soon blend his name with an important and interesting portion of our country."—LOCKPORT (N. Y.) DEMOCRAT, Nov. 11, 1847.
"The readers of the Literary World who may remember the interesting biographical sketch introduced into our columns (vol. i, p. 536) from Judge Burnett's Memoirs , will be glad to know that Mr. Lyman C. Draper's work, The Life and Times of Gen. Rogers Clark , is nearly ready for publication. The author, who, for more than ten years, has been constantly occupied collecting materials for the lives of the pioneers of our Great West, and whose notices collected can really be called invaluable, is the most able to undertake such a task."—LITERARY WORLD, March 4, 1848.
" LYMAN C. DRAPER. —Many of our readers will recognize in the name at the head of this article, a young man, who, a few years ago, was a student of Granville College . And although some few may have seen in the literary journals an occasional article from his pen, yet his retiring, unobtrusive character has, to a great extent, kept him somewhat obscure from the world. But Lyman C. Draper is destined to be known—not as a politician, or as a flitting writer , nor yet as one whose sole aim has been to immortalize himself. He will be known as the author of Western History , and hailed as the WESTERN PLUTARCH . He has been engaged for the last fourteen years in collecting materials for a work which will gladden the heart of every lover of his country, and especially of the West . Most of these years have been devoted to collecting many thousand pages of manuscript documents, which enable him to throw much new and valuable light upon Western history, embraced in that most stirring and interesting period, from 1754 to 1795; and at the same time, he has corrected many errors which have crept into the published works extant. Having had the pleasure, in former years, of Mr. Draper's acquaintance, he having been a member of my family for a considerable period, I availed myself, in a recent eastern tour, of calling on him, at his residence on the banks of the Schuylkill, some seven miles from Philadelphia. The romantic scenery along the Schuylkill, and around his residence, is well calculated to inspire any one with the most pleasing sensations of delight. I found my friend Draper in good health and spirits, surrounded by his most choice and select library, manuscripts, documents, etc., which are his only companions, and which he seems to enjoy with a peculiar relish. He lives with his relative, Mr. Remsen, whose bountiful hospitality I enjoyed during my stay. I was much gratified with my visit, and with the zeal and almost enthusiastic earnestness of purpose, with which he is devoting his time, talents and energies to this work. He seems determined to sift everything to the bottom, and furnish posterity with a history that can be relied upon. This is a work which has long been wanted, for there has not hitherto been a reliable history of the Pioneers of the West ; most of those which have appeared having been less valuable for the truth they contain, than for the profits they have yielded their proprietors."—CINCINNATI JOURNAL & MESSENGER, Oct. 11, 1850.
" LYMAN C. DRAPER has been long engaged on a work which will throw a great deal of light upon the pioneer history and biography of Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, &c. Gen. George Rogers Clark will be the prominent figure upon the canvas. Some estimate of Mr. Draper's indefatigable labors in the prosecution of this work may be inferred from the fact, that his MS. materials when completed, will probably fill fifty volumes."—CHARLES CAMPBELL, March 17, 1851, author of Hist. of Virginia , and editor of the Blount Papers , etc.
"I must express my hearty thanks to my friend Mr. Lyman C. Draper—one of our ablest border historians and scholars—for his kindness in sending me valuable memoranda and extracts from papers which he has collected during many years of labor in gathering the materials for his History of the Western Pioneers ."—BRANTZ MAYER, in his able Historical Discourse before the Maryland Historical Society, in May, 1851, on Logan and Cresap .
"For several years it has been known to many students of our early history, that Mr. Lyman C. Draper was devoting his time and estate, and faculties admirably trained for such pursuits, to the collection of whatever materials still exist for the illustration of the lives of the Western Pioneers. He has carefully explored all the valley of the Mississippi, under the most favorable auspices—by his intelligence and enthusiasm and large acquaintance with the most conspicuous people, commended to every family which was the repository of special traditions or of written documents—and he has succeeded in amassing a collection of MS. letters, narratives, and other papers, and of printed books, pamphlets, magazines, and journals, more extensive than is possessed by many of the State Historical Societies, while in character it is altogether and necessarily unique. He proposes soon to publish his first work, The Life and Times of General George Rogers Clark , (whose papers have been long in his possession, and whose surviving Indian fighters and other associates he has personally visited,) in two octavo volumes, to be followed by shorter historical memoirs of Colonel Daniel Boone, Gen. Simon Kenton, General John Sevier of East Tennessee, General James Robertson, Captain Samuel Brady, Colonel William Crawford, the Wetzels, &c. The field of his researches, it will be seen, embraces the entire sweep of the Mississippi, every streamlet flowing into which has been crimsoned with the blood of sanguinary conflicts, every sentinel mount in looking down to whose waves has been a witness of more terrible and strange vicissitudes and adventures than have been invented by all the romancers."—Dr. R. W. Griswold, International Magazine , Aug., 1851.
" LIFE OF COL. DANIEL BOONE. —The work, is one of those for which our friend, Lyman C. Draper, has been for several years collecting materials. He has associated with him in his enterprise Benson J. Lossing, with whose skill in the illustration of historical works the public are already familiar. We know how indefatigable and withal successful, Mr. Draper has been in preparing for his life of the "Father of Western Pioneers;" and now that he is to have the assistance of Mr. Lossing, we are quite sure of seeing it all respects well consummated. The Maidson (Wis.) Argus , in an article announcing the work, says:—
"For the work on Boone, the old papers left by the old Pioneer have been kindly furnished by his family, which, with the innumerable facts contained in the general collection of MS. papers and notes alluded to, will give the volume a thoroughly original and authentic character. All the aged, direct and collateral descendants of the old Pioneer, who have been living within the last sixteen years, have been visited and consulted, and they have freely contributed their facts, family papers and traditions, together with their united approval and commendation of the enterprise."—NIAGARA DEMOCRAT, May 25, 1854.
" NEW LIFE OF BOONE. —Some of our readers will remember LYMAN C. DRAPER, who many years since resided in Buffalo. He was at that period an ardent politician, and a diligent correspondent of the Press, but found leisure to commence a literary work, or series of works, which commend themselves to the American scholar and patriot, and will scarcely fail, when fairly before the public, to secure for their author the most substantial rewards. His plan has been to write the history of the leading Pioneers in the settlement, and the Revolutionary and Indian wars of the country, the first to be a Life of Col. Boone. To one of less ardor, perseverance and indomitable energy and fixedness of purpose, the task would seem beyond the reach of one man, in a life of ordinary length. But our enthusiastic, clear headed and heroic friend, nothing looked either repulsive or impossible in the great and original undertaking. To it he has devoted, in singleness of design, the best years and efforts of his life, in correspondence and travel and study. When his plan shall be completed, he will present to the men of this generation a full, authentic and life-like historical picture of the prominent warriors and border-men of the generations who preceded them. It will be a bold, graphic and honest work—thrilling in its freshness and vividness of detail, for its author has journeyed thousand of miles over river, mountain and prairie to gather his material from the lips of the few survivors of those days."—BUFFALO EVENING POST, May 30, 1854.
" WISCONSIN HISTORIANS. —We all know Gen. Smith, of Mineral Point, a rare gentleman, "all of the olden time," a man of "infinite jest," or rather delicate wit; a fine speaker and a ready and talented writer. He is now engaged upon the Documentary History of Wisconsin , which is being published under the auspices of the State, and has very appropriately been entrusted to him, as one of our oldest citizens, and every way admirably qualified for the task.
But we did not take up the pen to speak particularly of Mr. Smith. His name occurred to us just as we are about to mention another as the Wisconsin Historian—LYMAN C. DRAPER, of Madison. Very few of the citizens of this State are aware what perseverance, talent, energy, and the patient pursuit of the one great aim of life are combined in this gentleman, and yet, through his almost girlish modesty, are comparatively unknown. He is yet a young man, perhaps thirty or thirty-five, and from his boyhood a predominant taste for antiquarianism and historical research has led him over the battle grounds of our country; he has followed up the scenes of border wars and pioneering; retraced the paths of Boone, and Harrison, and Mad Anthony, and the gallant host of others whose names are prominent in the early history of the West; has travelled thousands of miles to obtain interviews with men with whom unwritten traditions were about to go down to the grave; has laboriously copied volumes of manuscript letters and documents pertaining to our history, the originals of which he could not obtain possession of; has gathered together perhaps the best library and collection of historical and curious matter strictly pertaining to the West that exists in the United States; has spent one or two fortunes in his unappreciated labor; and has finally settled down in our own State to arrange the products of this great labor, and if possible to give it to the world.
We could tell one or two amusing instances of this gentleman's excessive modesty, but we do not like to have him laughed at even for a trait which ranks among the most virtuous of these days. A residence in Madison will overcome that, if anything can—and one good effect of it will be to make him and his works better known and appreciated. He is now preparing a Life of Boone, which is nearly ready for the press. His other books, probably numbering seven or eight, will follow as soon as possible. The Knoxville (Tenn.) Register , says:
"These biographies [of Gen. Sevier, Robertson, Martin, and others, of Tennessee] being part of the history of the State, are much needed, and Mr. Draper should give them to the public as speedily as he can, consistent with a due regard to their preparation and accuracy. No work of the character of these should be published unless entirely complete and authentic in every respect, if he possesses or can possibly procure the material from which to make it so. Mr. Draper has devoted many years to gathering documents, facts and traditions, to be used in the preparation of these biographies, and we hope he will present the public with works creditable to himself and worthy of the memory of the noble heroes whose heroic bravery and consummate wisdom in establishing and defending the State of Tennessee, amid the perils that might well have appalled the stoutest hearts, it is intended to perpetuate."—GREEN BAY ADVOCATE, June 20th, 1851.
A NEW LIFE OF DANIEL BOONE.—We learn from the Madison (Wisconsin) Democrat , that Messrs. Draper & Lossing are engaged on a new life of DANIEL BOONE, the great Pioneer of Kentucky. Lyman C. Draper, Esq., is at present Corresponding Secretary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. He has labored longer, and with more zeal and perseverance in obtaining materials for Western History and Biography, has travelled more miles, had a more extensive correspondence, and become acquainted with a greater number of pioneers—than any other man in this country ever did, living or dead.
With him it has been a labor of love. He is full of enthusiastic admiration for these noble heroes whose courage and enterprise, in the midst of danger, privation and suffering, laid the foundation of states now abounding in population, wealth and all the elements of greatness. Some years since he visited Major Galloway and Gen. Whiteman in search of information. He was then on his way to southern Indiana to visit two of the companions of Boone, who were upwards of 80 years of age. While here he obtained a survey and drawing of Old Town, intended to illustrate the place where Gen. Simon Kenton ran the gauntlet.

With such a wealth of materials as Mr. Draper has accumulated, united in the execution of the work with Mr. Lossing, the accomplished artist and elegant writer, the public may anticipate a rich treat, and valuable addition to Western History.—Thos. C. Wright, in the Neosho, Ohio, Torch Light , July 19, 1854.
LITERARY PARTNERSHIP. —BENSON J. LOSSING, the well-known author of the Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution, has just formed an association with Mr. LYMAN C. DRAPER, the Secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society, for the purpose of preparing a series of popular volumes, to be illustrated in the highest style of the art of wood engraving, descriptive of the History and Biography of the Great West. They will embrace the Lives of Boone, Clark, Sevier, Robertson, Kenton, Crawford, Brady, Wetzell, Lewis, Shelby, the Campbells, and other Pioneers, who explored, conquered and settled the Western Valleys. Mr. Draper is well known throughout the entire West, as a most careful, enlightened, and indefatigable collector of facts appertaining to men and things connected with the early periods of Western wars and settlements. For sixteen years past he has devoted almost his entire time to the labor of collecting, by travel and correspondence, every important record and tradition of the stirring events west of the mountains. He has visited many pioneers who were yet living, and their descendants or companions in adventure, and obtained from them personal narratives and manuscript journals and letters of the greatest value. He is in possession of several thousand pages of original manuscript journals, narratives, and letters; and has preserved more than ten thousand pages of notes taken by himself from the lips of living men, and of narrative letters from them. As a western paper well observes, 'With such a wealth of materials as Mr. Draper has accumulated, united in the execution of the work with Mr. Lossing, the accomplished artist and elegant writer, the public may anticipate a rich treat, and a valuable addition to Western History.'
They will commence the preparation of the series, and produce the volumes as rapidly as possible, after Mr. Lossing shall have completed his elaborate and fully illustrated History of the War of 1812-15, now in hand, and for which he has obtained much valuable original material from Mr. Draper's Western collection. In the meanwhile a Life of Daniel Boone will be early completed and issued. This will be an authentic life of Boone, because the principal facts have been gathered from public and private contemporary records, family papers and traditions. All of the papers left by the old Pioneer, carefully rolled up in the piece of deer skin in which he left them, are in the possession of Mr. Draper; and he has the certificate of Nathan Boone (a yet surviving son of Daniel) and thirty other members of his family, that Mr. D. alone possesses the requisite materials for a correct life of their distinguished relative. At least two-thirds of the volume will be original matter never before in print. It will be beautifully illustrated with portraits, and sketches of scenery and events, for which purpose Mr. Lossing will visit the most important localities made memorable by Boone's exploits.—NORTON'S N. Y. LITERARY GAZETTE, Sept. 1, 1854.
A CORRECT LIFE OF DANIEL BOONE. —We rejoice to learn that a literary association has been formed between LYMAN C. DRAPER and BENSON J. LOSSING, for the preparation, illustration and publication of several border works for which Mr. Draper has been many years engaged in collecting the materials, and the first of the series is to be a life of the world-renowned pioneer, DANIEL BOONE.
Few men have been more wronged, not to say abused, by biographers, than the old Pioneer of Kentucky. His history, singularly attractive from its romantic and inspiring features, has been made the subject of numerous history-makers by profession, who obtained the few prominent facts of his life, with which they incorporated all that they heard or found printed, together with idle and unauthenticated romances, without an effort to separate the true from the false—solicitous only for anything which they thought might 'add interest' to their sale-work, rather than to convey to the reader any true idea of the character or incidents connected with the eventful life of this favorite hero, of which the pretended historian never cared to possess himself with more than a general outline, and commenced his history in total ignorance of Boone's family, his birth-place, religion, original country, or the orthography of his name. This is the case with all the lives of this great Pioneer that have hitherto been published. Every lover of true history will rejoice at the appearance of the present work from a more gifted and altogether reliable source. We hail the coming out of these different works with a peculiar pleasure, from a personal knowledge of the great abilities of LYMAN C. DRAPER, the reliable integrity of his character, and his earnest and untiring devotion to the truth of history. He has been known to us several years as a gentleman of liberal education and enlarged views, and with a soul devoted to his subject, who has been collecting materials for a series of biographical histories of Western pioneers and patriots—and that for this object he has devoted the whole time of his manhood, amounting to the half of an ordinary life time, and this with a singleness of purpose that allowed not of interruption or distraction by other pursuits or cares, but laboring in his one great object of love—the first and earliest of his heart, and most cherished of his affection and ambition. The whole West, South and North has been swept by him for this purpose—old musty records have been drawn from their dark and forgotten abodes—worm-eaten trunks, chests and boxes, have been let down from among the lumber of garrets of the contemporaries of the parties and their descendants, for letters, journals and other memoranda of the actors in scenes now half forgotten, but the results of which are seen in the civilization and comforts of a country, then a wilderness and teemed mainly by the Red man. The greater part of these collections were made by Mr. Draper, during his residence in Baltimore, and afterwards in Philadelphia; but when measurably completed, he withdrew to Wisconsin in the autumn of 1852, and settled in Madison, where, with greater leisure and the advantage of retirement, he could better arrange his materials for publication. There are few men living with the patience to endure such a labor, and fewer still with a spirit of love to its laboriousness, enlightened with the fire of genius, with which such a life has been attended, making it love rather than labor. We are greatly pleased to learn of his association with Mr. Lossing, with a view to the literary perfection, and artistic illustration of the work, which cannot but greatly add to its beauty and value.
JAMES W. BRIMMER, in Pittsburgh American , May 22d, and Sept. 20th, 1854.
WESTERN HISTORY. —While in Madison, I visited LYMAN C. DRAPER, the energetic and thoroughly competent Corresponding Secretary of the State Historical Society. He is the best read man in Western history whom I have ever met here or elsewhere. He has been engaged for sixteen years in gathering materials for original biographies of Daniel Boone, Gen. George Rogers Clark, Gen. Simon Kenton, Col. William Crawford, Capt. Samuel Brady, and other prominent men, whose full and reliable lives are unwritten. Mr. Draper has 1500 volumes in his library, mostly historical works, gathered as references to aid in preparing his forthcoming memoirs of the persons named above. His most valuable aids, however, are fifty volumes of manuscripts, which he has gathered by his indomitable perseverance, carefully arranged, and neatly bound. They are a great curiosity. He has unpublished letters by Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Lord Shelburne, Baron Shelburne, Governor Gooch, Dinwiddie, Fauquier, and Dunmore of Va., Generals Lee, Knox, Mercer, Clark, Robertson, Sevier, Boone, Crawford, Shelby, and others—in short the very documents which one must have to write the history of the West. His Life of Boone, in which he is aided by BENSON J. LOSSING, and which is to be richly illustrated, is nearly ready for the press.—Correspondence of the Detroit Christian Watchman , Sept. 28, 1854, by JESSE CLEMENT, author of Life of Judson, Noble Women , etc.
WESTERN HISTORY. —Mr. Lossing, the well-known author of the "Pictorial Book of the Revolution," has recently formed a literary partnership with LYMAN C. DRAPER, the Secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society, for the purpose of preparing a series of popular volumes, descriptive of the History and Biography of the Great West. They will embrace the lives of most, if not all, of the celebrated Pioneers, who explored, conquered, and settled the Western Valleys, among which is that of the celebrated Capt. SAMUEL BRADY, brother of the late Gen. HUGH BRADY, of Detroit, Michigan, and grand-father of Dr. R. L. BRADY, of this place.—CATLETSBURG (Ky.) News, Oct. 30, 1854.
"Your reputation is well known to me, and is the best guarantee of the practicable value of your Institution."—Dr. E. K. KANE, the lamented Arctic Explorer, Jan., 1856.
"At the present moment, the State Historical Society of Wisconsin gives a promise of a wider action and more extended usefulness than any similar organization in the West. Much of its success is due to the love of research, and the indefatigable industry, of its Secretary, LYMAN C. DRAPER, who is a Historical Society in himself."— Chicago Tribune , April 17, 1856.
LYMAN C. DRAPER. —We clip the following notice of the Wisconsin Historical Society, and of its accomplished Secretary, from the Wisconsin Farmer . What is here said of Mr. Draper is true—every word of it. The time is not far off when Wisconsin will be proud of the name and fame of this unpretending man—for he has devoted already more than a score of years to the gathering and preservation of the scattered fragments of Western History. We understand Mr. Draper's Life of Boone is nearly ready for the press, and is to be followed in rapid succession by works on Gen.
George R. Clark, Gen. Simon Kenton, Gen. Robertson, Gen. Sevier, Gen. Martin, the Campbells, the Shelleys, Capt. Samuel Brady, the Wetzels, and others. We note also by the newspapers the death of Col. Nathan Boone, of Missouri—the last surviving son of Daniel Boone. Fortunately, Mr. Draper visited the Colonel some years since, and took from his own lips his recollections of his father and of early border times.
"The remarkable zeal and peculiar abilities of Mr. Draper, as its chief actuary, are becoming matters of such universal and just notoriety as hardly to need a reference from us. All who are familiar with the history and progress of the Society, know how much of its success and prosperity is due to him. Worthy as the object is admitted by all to be, yet how few in this fast age can be found, willing to forego money making and speculation, to devote their time and talents to such labor. Luckily it is for Wisconsin and the West, that there is one, and he so eminently fit. He illustrates how sure any worthy project is of success, if it has one thoroughly devoted mind to work for it. The Picture Gallery is becoming a highly attractive feature already, embracing many fine portraits of our most eminent citizens, as well as many connected with our early history. The Library already exceeds 3,000 volumes, besides great numbers of pamphlets, and is rapidly increasing. In addition to all of which Mr. Draper has made a large collection of curiosities in the way of ancient coins, autograph letters, and other things too numerous to mention."— Horicon (Wis.) Argus , Nov. 19, 1856.
DRAPER, THE HISTORIAN. —We notice with no little pleasure the following short, but truthful, life-sketch of DRAPER, the historian, one whom we have long known and greatly admired, not only for the simplicity and beauty of his life, but his singular devotion to the subject of that life—the early history of the West, particularly in the lives of the great pioneers, whose bold energy of character, opened that vast region to the occupation of their countrymen and the world. In this "Portrait" he is set down as aged about 35 years, but he is older than that—fortune has provided him, beneficently, as if in the spirit of its bountyfulness to a favorite, with a wife—and why should we disguise the fact of his true age, believing, as we do, that forty-five is nearer his time? We know at least, that more than twenty of these years have been devoted to this one and only object of his ambition and life—a collection of materials for the lives of all, or of the most distinguished pioneers of the West, of whom we of the present day have heard so much, but so little that is truthful or reliable for a just appreciation of their true merit or renown. It is with this view that Mr. Draper has no less than ten times traveled through the Western and South-Western States, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi—having twice 'blazed' his way into Missouri, once to the extreme South-West corner, upon the Ozark mountain plain—seeking in the capitals of the old States for facts among the musty records of by-gone times—among the descendants of early actors for letters, long since consigned to boxes and garrets, and seldom falling to fish out rich matter for his purpose, as a reward to his untiring and ever active mind, keenly but systematically bent upon the one great object of his inquiry and intelligence. Every part of Western Pennsylvania has been explored by him at different times, and the borders of the Susquehanna, Juniata, Monongahela and Alleghany rivers have been traversed by him and 'fished' out of all their valuable material for his library and cabinet of rare manuscripts and oral traditions. In this manner he has collected one of the largest and most valuable manuscript libraries in the country. Of these, fifty volumes are bound and alphabeted, and these are considerably less than half of the whole collection.
He has several of his proposed works more or less advanced in progress. The first he will issue will be that of Boone, to be followed by those of George Rogers Clark, Samuel Brady, Simon Kenton, the Wetzels, co-actors with Brady, and distinguished alike as warriors and scouts, and the heroes, not of an event or action, but of a country or period. His works, when completed, will also embrace fuller or shorter sketches of the lives of Gen. Richard Butler, Crawford, St. Clair, the Poes, Simon Girty and others, who all filled larger or lesser spaces in the volume of their time. These works, from such a hand, from a mind so enlightened and classical, and the production of such devotion and industry, will be a most valuable addition to our literature, and which the owner of every library in our country will anxiously look for. But to our extract, which we transfer from the Madison (Wis.) Fireside :
"LYMAN C. DRAPER.—The following 'pen-picture' of the active, indefatigable, animating spirit of the State Historical Society, a man who has done more towards giving Wisconsin the honor of having the most successful society of the kind in the United States, we clip from a lengthy, appreciative article in the Argus & Democrat , of the 2nd inst.:
"This labor and the gentleman who accomplished it, are hardly less objects of curiosity than the volumes, paintings and relics that fill the room. The Corresponding Secretary is LYMAN C. Draper. He is a man about 35 years old, five feet two inches high, and weighing about one hundred and twenty pounds. He may be seen almost any morning between the Post-office or market and his residence, with a package of books, letters and edibles, walking at a speed that would appal many men of far greater length of limb, and without over-coat or cloak, during even the coldest mornings. Call upon him in his private rooms and you will find his floor, chairs, tables and lounges, piled with old letters, books of reference, volumes of early history, autograph letters, original manuscripts, diaries and reports of Boone, Clark and many of the first settlers and soldiers. He is preparing a Life of Daniel Boone , which will be a work of thrilling interest and lasting value. His tastes are strongly marked and strikingly peculiar. He hoards relics and adores autographs. Old maps, fragments of pioneer history, the recollections of our past, he gathers and preserves with vast labor and almost superstitious care. He has been known to travel hundreds of miles, amid hardships and obstacles, to see and converse with an old settler or Indian, who had fought a battle with Boone, or Kenton, to gather his broken narrative and catch the fleeting murmurs of his failing memory. With comparatively no means, amid neglect and coldness, he has collected the treasures of the State Historical Society, and is yearly adding to the same. His labors just begin to be appreciated, and for the first time the public is learning that he is engaged in rearing a durable monument of the learning and civilization of the State."—Pittsburgh FAMILY JOURNAL & VISITOR, Feb. 20, 1857.
TO LYMAN C. DRAPER the historical literature of the West is much indebted.— HISTORICAL MAGAZINE , March, 1857.
"LYMAN C. DRAPER, now a resident of Philadelphia, but a native of the Holland Purchase, left this region an ambitious boy, in search of an education; that acquired, he engaged in historical researches, and now enjoys a well-earned fame for valuable contributions to American History. He is now engaged, in Philadelphia, in preparing for the press the 'Life and Times of Gen. GEORGE ROGERS CLARK, of Kentucky,' and intends following it up with histories of others of the prominent pioneers of the Valley of the Mississippi."—TURNER'S HISTORY OF THE HOLLAND PURCHASE OF WESTERN NEW STATE YORK.
"The Biography of General Robertson and General Joseph Martin would have been more minutely given, but that their private files had been placed in the hands of LYMAN C. DRAPER, of Wisconsin. This is the less to be regretted, as that competent writer has promised, in addition to the lives of these Tennessee pioneers, those of many Western adventurers, which cannot fail to make a valuable contribution to the biographical literature of the West. He has been indefatigable in the procurement of material for such a work."—RAMSEY'S ANNALS OF TENNESSEE.
"Mr. LOSSING has formed an association with Mr. LYMAN C. DRAPER, well known throughout the West as an indefatigable collector of traditions, manuscripts, journals, letters, &c., relating to the history and biography of the settlements and settlers beyond the Alleghanies, for the purpose of producing a series of volumes, commencing with the Life of Daniel Boone ."—DUTCHING'S CYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN LITERATURE.
Other references to Mr. Draper's contributions, researches, or antiquarian labors, may be found in the following works: Schoolcraft's History and Condition of the Indian Tribes, iv, 133; Documentary History of New York, i, 520; Pennsylvania Archives, vii, 505; Parkman's History of the Conspiracy of Pontiac, 571; History of Braddock's Expedition, 182; Charles Campbell's History of Virginia, 194; Perkins' Western Annals, xx; Annals of the West, Peck's Edition, 77, 101, 171; Rev. Dr. J. M. Peck's Life of Boone, in Spark's American Biography, xii, pp. 9, 93; Memoir and Writings of J. H. Perkins, ii, 245; Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee, 150, 197; Turner's History of the Holland Purchase of Western New York, 260, 685; Ludewig's American Bibliography, 131; Western Literary Journal, i, 135; Western Literary and Historical Magazine, i, 163, 192; American Pioneer, i, 381, ii, 325, 402; Olden Time, i, 369, ii, 468; Craig's Life of Stobo, appendix; Smith's History of Wisconsin, i, 350; Hunt's Wisconsin Gazetteer, 4; Virginia Historical Register, iv, 87, 236, 240—v, 20, 61, 194; Harper's Magazine, Dec., 1854.

32 aH 28 2W 2~
State of Kentucky } Whitley County }
Countermanding and revoking all powers of attorney and authority heretofore given I hereby constitute and appoint W. M. Smith of Rockcastle County and state aforesaid and Charles C. Tucker of Washington City, my true and lawful attorneys to prosecute the claims of my father John Cummons deceased and my husband Charles Gatliff deceased for any amount revolutionary pension or increase of pension that may be due, and I hereby authorize my said attorneys to examine all papers or documents in relation to said claims or file in the Department at Washington City, or elsewhere to file additional evidence or arguments and to receive for my exclusive benefit the certificate which may be issued for said claims which certificate I wish made payable at Louisville Kentucky Agency, to appoint one or more substitutes in his absence to render him for the purposes herein expressed and to do all things that I might or could do were I present personally hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said attorneys and Agents shall lawfully do in the premises.
Rachel Gatliff mark
Test
State of Kentucky
Whitley County
I Jesse B. Harp a Justice of the peace for the county of Whitley above letter do certify that Rachel Gatliff of this county personally appeared before me and acknowledged the foregoing to be her act and deed for the purposes therein stated that S. Smith and Ch. C. Tucker are her true and lawful attorneys to act for her in the capacity above stated as though she was present given under my hand this 23 rd February 1853 I also certify that I am not interested in pension claims neither directly or indirectly.
Jesse B. Harp
State of Kentucky } County of Whitley }
I John P. Fry
clerk of the county court of the county of Whitley and state of Kentucky do certify that Jesse B. Harp esq. who has signed the above certificate is a Justice of the peace for the county and state above letter.

and duly Commissioned and sworn as the law directs To administer oaths and I further certify the signature purporting to be his is genuine and that he is and was at the time of so sign- -ing his name an acting Justice of the peace for the County of which by and state above written.
In testimony whereof I her unto subscribe My name as clerk of said court and affixed the seal of said office this 25 th day of Feby 1853 Jno P Ely Ck
Power of Atty to examine admitted Pension claim of Charles Gottiff Kentucky Roll Act of June 7. 1832
Chas. C. Tucker. Atty. Present.

St Vernon Ky. 28 th July 1883.
Mr H. P. Waldo.
Commissioner of Pensions Washington City
Dear sir I received your letter in regard to the claim of Rebecca Will, and heard nothing about the claims of Rachel Gatliff and Sarah Leavikham, which I sent at the same time. I wrote to you some time ago, that a certain Mr Smith & others had got a forged power of attorney as I supposed appointing some one as attorney or agent to attend to the business of Rachel Gatliff, this man Smith & others have engaged to get for her a pension in right of her father - Cummins, she told me when I last saw her that they would not read the power of attorney to her that she acknowledged before Miss Bryant of Whitley Co. and told her they had not time, it was all right, she believes it was a power of attorney to attend the same business that I am attending to for her. This man W. M. Smith is a perfect swindler and will do anything to take a case away from me, he is my bitter enemy. he hunts up cases for others here on the shares

he would do anything to defeat me in a case. I do not follow the bus- iness of getting pensions but only attend to a case when specially call- ed on. I therefore wish you if any person is meddling with any of my cases to inform me no news. except I in now str- ongly believed that Borkenridge will beat Gov. Lether in the Ashland district. Democracy is growing in G. like rank weeds. Yours &c
J. Newman

P. O. _____
3949 Richard Gulliff
Service: widow of Charles
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: REJECTED _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

St. Vernon Ky. 12 th Novr 1853
Dear Sir yours of the 3 rd inst is at hand & examined, with regard to the claim of Rachel Gatliff I will give you the "truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me God"
My business is at present at home I am the Clerk of the Circuit Court for this County & have been for two years, I do not recollect to have been in the County of Whitley but once in my life (& I am now 33 years of age) before I was there attending to some pension claims last winter at the time I engaged to attend to attend to Mrs Gatliff, I never knew before that time that there was such a woman in existence as Rachel Gatliff, I was attending to some claims and heard of Rachel Gatliff as being the widow of a Revolutionary pensioner, and at the request of a friend of hers I went to see her, but before I went and, on my arrival at the Court house of Whitley Co. I met with a young Lawyer who was also engaged in the pension business, I related the case of Rachel Gatliff to him, he remarked

to me that he had engaged the case & that it would be a good one, and on a further conversation he remarked that he had heard it rumored that the parties had been divorced.
Having business however in the neighborhood of Mrs Galtiff's I went on, and as I had promised a friend of hers that I would call and see her I did so, and asked the old lady if she had ever been divorced from Charles Galtiff. She declared to me most positively that she never had, & that she never had employed no one to attend to her case, finding that the young lawyer had stated falsely in regard to one particular. I did not believe him in the other, I enquired of her near neighbors about the matter they said, they had been well acquainted with both Rachel & Charles Galtiff for many years before his death. They told me that if she ever had been a divorce they had never heard it, the old lady now lives on a part of the land owned by her deceased husband, the old lady told me that many years ago she sued her husband for a divorce & alimony, but that the suit was compromised & no divorce granted. & my own opinion is that if

There is a divorce the old lady don't know it. he husband died insolvent
I further enquired of the Clerk of the Whitley Circuit Court about the matter he told me that there had been such a suit three years ago. between Rachel & Charles Gatliff, but it was removed from that County, as he thought to Knox County, & I enquired of the Circuit Court Clerk of Knox County, he told me there had been such a suit there but it was removed to Laurel County. I enquired of the Laurel Clerk & he told me there had never been such a suit there, as clerk of the Rockcastle Circuit Court I examined the record, I found that there had been a suit there of Rachel Gatliff vs Charles Gatliff but it had been docketed and removed at the same time to Lincoln County. I thought that I had made as much enquiry as prudence dictated especially when the old lady when the old lady declared that she her self brought the suit & that it was compromised & no divorce granted, and her neighbors, old citizens that had been well acquainted with the parties all the time telling me that they had never heard of such a thing as a divorce between them

having done all this I drew up the old ladies petition. she proved a good character by her neighbors, I afterwards heard it from one of the old ladies connexion with whom she had been at law, and they were not at a good understanding. He said he had heard it rumored that she had been divorced, I also heard it rumo- red that the heirs of Sharp Galtiff said the old lady should never draw a pen- sion if they could prevent it,
Thus having made the search and enquiry that I had & know there would be opposition
I rested the matter here, for I thought I had done all that prudence required me to do. and this much I knew about the divorce. live or die, sink or swim,
I know that I have enemies here who scrutinize my acts closely. who are endeavoring to prostrate me, and except the Smiths-Kirtleys Kirtleys & a certain W m McClure, I refer you to the whole country for a wide to extent of my acquaintance for my honesty & good character, I also refer you to Genl James Guthrie with whom I served in the State Convention that remodelled the Constitution of Ky. in 1825. I believe I have before informed you in regard to the character of these Smiths who have been meddling in this case, I stand in the front rank of the Democracy here, & have run several hard races. and although there are only about 300 Democratic notes in the counties of Rockcastle & Laurel (which are attached)

to about 1800. whigs. I. always come out a little a head, and out of these races has grown all this ambition and prejudice, and they may write what they please about me; I am yet a head and shoulders taller than any of them. These Smiths go by the name of the dogs here.
would you be so kind Sir as to inform me where the divorce was granted, and how you got the information
Perhaps you do not know these Smiths here and they operate thro' their agents secretly
For my character I also refer you to the hon. John M. Eliot elected to congress from this district and the hon. James Cobb's man elect from the adjoining district
I am Sir your obedt. Servt J. Rivers
L. P. Waldron Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D. C.

Rachel Galtiff to 3 power 3 attorny Stewards

Know all men by these presents That whereas some time since I employed J. Newcum of Mt Vernon Rockcastle County Ky. to prosecute my claim against the United States Government for a pension as the widow of Charles Gatliff deceased, and have engaged his services as to do the same and him only, and whereas it is supposed that powers of atty. have been fraudulently obtained appointing others to attend to this business, contrary to my will, wish, or int- ention, by misrepresentation of the substance of written instruments by me acknowledged heretofore.
Now I know ye That I Rachel Gatliff of the County of Whitley in the State of Ky. do by these presents so nominate and appoint Jonathan Newcum of Mt Vernon Rockcastle County Ky. my attorney and Lawful agent in fact to prosecute my claim against & get me a pension of the United States Government in right of my husband Charles Gatliff & as his widow, under the law passed 3 rd July 1853. granting pensions to certain Wid- ows of Revolutionary Soldiers &c and do by these presents revoke all former powers of attorney, or authorities to any one heretofore given to attend to this business, except the above named J. Newcum and the powers of atty. &c heretofore given him, & retaining the said J. Newcum as my only agent and as in this behalf.
In testimony whereof I have this day set my hand and seal this 10 th day of Oct r 1853.
her Rachel Gatliff mark

State of Kentucky } County of Whitley } A.D.
As a Justice of the peace within and for the county and State aforesaid. I do hereby certify that Rachel Galliff this day personally appeared before me and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her act and deed with and desire. The same having been previously read to her, and fully explained and she fully understanding the contents of the same given under my hand this 10 th day of October 1853. Minor Bryant Jp
State of Kentucky } County of Whitley } A.D.
I J. H. Watkins deputy for John p. Lee clerk of the County Court for the county and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Minor Bryant whose genuine signature appears to the above certificate is and was at the signing of the same an acting Justice of the peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, and that his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my said office done at Williamsburg. This the 10 th day of October 1853 J. H. Watkins Secy for J. P. Lee clerk

Hon. Lewis P. Waldo. Conspirator of Pensylvania. Washington. D.C.

June the 11th 5 Day Corn 5 B Numberd 5 B 13 1/2 BYRG and 100 Johnfaris Arongat
To Comrs of Publick Service
0. Publick Service

Cain Run August 22, 1780
Sir you are hereby Required to Demand and from the Several Captains on the North side of Kentucky to make up a Scouting Party of Men abou 30 in Number wil at answer the present Purpose. untill I can the ain for you from himself  that I will Give and for 100 Men so March as soon as Possible to Joyn you and to remain with you untill farther Orders, Then the Men Joyns you - you are to Endavour to save the Crops of Corn at those Places where they have been Planted and Left Desolate, and to Endavour to Make Diligent Search after the Enemy that they May Not Penetrate so far in to our Country as to Distress the Inhabitants there of with out being Discovered, and such Discovery if any, you are to let Me Know Immediatly. for  for  Beet  Beet you must - Depend on the Woods for Bread I hope there is a plenty by this time at the aforesaid Places, What Ever Place you are at where there is Corn have an Acre Measured and valued then that is the use of a Mother in the same Manner, that the Owner May be Inabled to receive satisfaction for his Property but at any Rate Not to suffer the Corn to be pulled any Where through the field all I will Endavour to send with the Men when they come, in the mean time Endavour to Borrow as Much as will do for the Present I am Sir your Hum ble Serv t . J. P. Spelman

State of Kentucky } County of Whitley } ss.
On this the fourteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and fifty three personally appeared before me John Noham a Justice of the peace in and for the Court aforesaid a State of Kentucky Rachel Gatliff aged eighty six years old who first being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed on the 3 rd February 1853. granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War; That she is the Widow of Charles Gatliff deceased who was a Revolutionary pensioner.
She states that she does not recollect any of the officer names under whom he served nor does she know the time or where he served she states that her recollection has almost failed but for proof of his services &c she refers to the papers on file in the Department on which her said husband was allowed a pension and hopes that no more will be required.
She further declares that she was married to her said husband Charles Gatliff in Knox County Kentucky by James Pullivan a Methodist preacher legally authorized

to solemnize the rights of matrimony, on the 13 th day of June one thousand eight hundred and nine, and that her said husband died on the 30 th day of June 1838 that all marriage with the said Rachel Galtiff prior to 1800 and not prior to that date or the second of January eighteen hundred, but at the time above stated, she further declares that she is now a widow and that she has never been married since the death of her said husband and that her maiden name was Rachel Cummings
Rachel Galtiff
Sworn to and subscribed to by Rachel Galtiff on the day and year above written, before me John Mahan a Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid and I further certify that Rachel Galtiff is a lady who supposes a good character & that I believe she is of the age above stated & that I am acquainted with her and know her to be the identical widow of Charles Galtiff late who was a Revolutionary pensioner. I further certify that from old age she seems to be a woman of bad recollection and that from old age and bodily infirmary she is not able to attend in open Court, and that I am not interested in this claim nor am I prosecuting the same given under my hand I further certify that the words that she

was not married to the said Charles Gottiff before 1800. was intestate in my presence since the passage of the Act of the Legislature
John Mahan - Jp W6
The Commission of pension will please forward my certificate of pension who be allowed to Mr. S. Newman At. Vernon Ky. who is my agent attest Rachel Gottiff
John Mahan Jp

State of Kentucky Knox County ss
On this 13 th day of April 1853 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid duly authorized to administer oaths, and made oath in due form of law that James Sullivan who solemnized the rights of Matrimony between Charles Galtiff and Rachell Cummings was a minister of the Gospel belonging to the Methodist church and was duly authorized to celebrate the rights of Matrimony. He also states that he is 57 years old and that he was the clerk of the Knox County and was well acquainted with the said James Sullivan, & that he was well acquainted with the said Charles Galtiff & Rachell Galtiff & that they lived together for many years as man & wife.
Daniel H. Ballinger.
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 13 th day of April 1853 & I certify that the words James H. Ballinger & Methodist was interlined in my presence & that the said James H. Ballinger is a gentleman of good character and entitled to full credit on oath & that that I am in no way interested in this claim & the words "was the clerk of the Knox County" was struck out in my presence.
James H. Ballinger

State of Kentucky, 3 rd set Knock County
I John M. Beckins clerk of the County Court within & for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that James T. Goshorn Esq re . whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing affidavit is and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace with and for the County and State aforesaid duly commissioned and authorized to administer oaths for General purposes. I further certify that I am not interested in the event of this claim nor am I prosecuting the same
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office at Barkersville this 13 th day of April 1853
John M. Beckins Clerk Knox County Court

State of Kentucky, 300 County of Whitley 300
On this the 14 th day of April 1853 personally appeared before me John Makaw a Justice of the peace in and for the County & State aforesaid John Johnson & Elizabeth Johnson who being duly sworn according to Law doth on their oaths make the following affidavit that they were well acquainted with Charles Galliff and Rachel Galliff and that the said Charles Galliff died in Whitley County Kentucky on the thirtieth day of June One Thousand Eight Hundred and thirty eight, and the said John Johnson declares that he made his coffin and helped to bury him, they further state that they are now well acquainted with the said Rachel Galliff, and that she is the widow of the said Charles Galliff deceased who was a Revolutionary Soldier & a pensioner and that she is still alive and is a widow & that she has never been married since the death of her said husband Charles Galliff and that she lives in about one mile of them
They further state that they were well acquainted with James Sullivan & that he was a Methodist preacher duly authorized to celebrate the rights of matrimony John Johnson Elizabeth Johnson

State of Kentucky } County of Whitley } ss.
I hereby certify that the foregoing deposition of John Johnson and Elizabeth Johnson was this day sworn to and subscribed by them in my presence, I further certify that they are persons who possess a good character, and certify that the word June was interlined in their and my presence and that I have no interest in this claim and am not prosecuting the same
John Mahan Jp W 6
State of Kentucky } County of Whitley } ss
I John P. Gye clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing Declaration of Rachel Galtiff and the affidavits and proofs thereto annexed was this day exhibited in open Court while the same was in session and affirmed by the Court and ordered to be certified to the Commissioner of Pensions.
It is further ordered to be certified that satisfactory evidence was this day

adduced to Court that the said Rachel Galliff is the Widow of Charles Galliff deceased who was a Revolutionary pen- sioner and that she is still alive and that the said Charles Galliff died on the 30 th day of June 1838, and that she possessed a good character and that John Mahan whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing affidavit and declaration is and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid duly Commissioned and authorised by law to administer oaths for general purposes and that his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit
Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of My office done at Williamsburg on the 18 th day of April 1853
John D. Page Clerk of Wythe County et

please address J. Verneum at Mount Vernon Kentucky Ro. Camp of Rockcastle J. Verneum